Saturday, 23 July 2011

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    Scientific Creationism
    By Henry Madison Morris
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    Genesis (As Written By A Creation "Scientist")

    In the beginning--specifically on October 23, 4004 B.C., at noon--out of nothing (actually the quantum foam fluctuation) God created inflationary cosmology out of which our universe was triggered by the Big Bang. He saw that the Big Bang was VERY big, too big for creatures that could worship him, so He created the earth. And darkness was upon the face of the deep, so He commanded hydrogen atoms (which He created out of Quarks and other subatomic goodies) to fuse and become helium atoms and in the process release energy in the form of light. And the light maker he called the sun, and the process He called fusion. And He saw the light was good because now He could see what he was doing. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    And God said, Let there be lots of fusion light makers in the sky. Some of these fusion makers appear to be more than 4004 light years from Earth. In fact, some of the fusion makers He grouped into collections He called galaxies, and these appeared to be millions and even billions of light years from Earth, so He created tired light so that these fusion makers only appeared to be that far and the 4004 B.C. creation would be preserved. And created He many wondrous splendors such as Red Giants, White Dwarfs, Quasars, Pulsars, Nova and Supernova, worm holes, and even Black Holes out of which nothing can escape. But since God cannot be constrained by nothing, He created Hawking radiation through which information can escape from Black Holes. This cosmic loop hole made God even more tired than tired light, and the evening and the morning were the second day.

    And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the continents drift apart by plate tectonics. He decreed sea floor spreading would create zones of emergence, and He caused subduction zones to build mountains and cause earthquakes. In weak points in the crust God created volcanic islands, where the next day He would place organisms that were similar to but different from their relatives on the mainlands so that still later created creatures called humans would mistake them for evolved descendants. And in the land God placed fossil fuels, natural gas, and other natural resources for humans to exploit, but not until after Day Six. And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    And God saw that the land was lonely, so he created animals bearing their own kind, declaring Thou shalt not evolve into new species, and thy equilibrium shall not be punctuated. And God placed into the land's strata, fossils that appeared older than 4004 B.C., and the sequence resembled descent with modification. And the evening and morning were the fourth day.

    And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life, the fishes. And God created great whales whose skeletal structure and physiology were homologous with the land mammals he would create later that day. Since this caused confusion in the valley of the shadow of doubt God brought forth abundantly all creatures, great and small, declaring that microevolution was permitted, but not macroevolution. And God said, Natura non facit saltum--Nature shall not make leaps. And the evening and morning were the fifth day.

    And God created the pongidids and hominids with 99% genetic similarity, naming two of them Adam and Eve, who were anatomically fully modern humans. And in the ground placed He in abundance teeth, jaws, skulls, and pelvises of transitional fossils from pre-Adamite creatures. One he chose as his special creation He named Lucy. And God realized this was confusing, so he created paleoanthropologists to sort it out.

    Just as He was finishing up the loose ends of the creation, such as putting the pit in avocados, God realized that Adam's immediate descendants would not understand inflationary cosmology, global general relativity, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, biochemistry, paleontology, and the other ologies, so he created creation myths. But there were so many creation stories throughout the world God realized this was confusing, so he created anthropologists, folklorists, and mythologists to sort it out.

    But confusion reigned in the valley of the shadow of doubt, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply themselves. But they took God literally and 6,000 years later there are six billion humans. And the evening and morning were the sixth day. So God said, Thank me its Friday, and He made the weekend. And He saw that it was a good idea.


Comments (20)

  • Celestial_Teapot

    I'm just grateful that outside of fundamentalists, there are reasonble Christians who honestly consider the evidence and don't mistaken their Bible with College-level Astronomy, Physics, and Biology textbooks.

  • Garistotle

    That's ridiculous.

    Everyone knows the world started at Midnight.

  • SlackerSociety

    Most of the people who rec'd this probably didnt even read the post, they rec'd on just the motivational poster.

    You go and post this, then mock creationism at the end.  This is obviously satire. You have no respect for even Christians who accept evolution. You're probably just another atheist who wants everything secularized, making you no better than the religious that want everything theological.

  • SirNickDon

    @SlackerSociety - I've always felt respected by Krisko.

  • The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter

    I guess another question we should be asking ourselves is, where were we when all this crap was coming down and where will we be in the future ? Or is it realistic to believe in the billions of years the universe has been around, the life span of humans is a mere 70 or 80 years. ???

  • wizexel22

    I don't believe in a young earth ...but its silly to think 6 billion people is an argument against it. 6,000 years is more than enough time to produce 6 billion people....easily. In fact, the greater burden is to explain why in the 200,000 years of modern humans, why the population is only 6-7 billion. I think there are plenty of reasons to reject a young earth theory...but the human population definitely isn't one of them.

    I think this satirical account of creation does show that a literal 6-day creation doesn't seem to make much sense....but it also doesn't really say or prove anything (other than, "it doesn't seem to make much sense"). And most of the Christians I know don't take the 6 days of Genesis to be literal (though I'm not sure what % of Christians in America do believe in a young earth). I'm still not sure why, in your obsessive quest to tear down and expunge Christianity from the face of the earth....why you always attack the weakest fringe parts of Christianity?

  • thesoftlights@blackhk
    Favorite part: "And He saw the light was good because now He could see what he was doing." LMAO
  • AMIGOS_WE_THREE

    This is proof that drugs should not become legal

  • AmeliaHart

    It's time you attacked the Hare Krishna followers and the Buddhists... this is old hat! ;) 

  • godfatherofgreenbay

    I remember sitting in a Lutheran grade school and this teacher read us this article about how old the world was and apparently the study was conducted by scientists at NASA and they determined that the world was missing about a day because of Joshua asking for more sunlight and Hezekiah being granted extra life.  I thought that was pretty far fetched even as a 3rd grader.

  • pb49r

    You are good at creative writing, but why credit a Creation "Scientist" as the author of this?  I think you have to create such, because you will not accept the Creation accounts of Genesis 1 and 2 as two versions telling us how life got started on Planet Earth.  I take it literally.  But what if life was transplanted from another realm, that would be okay too.  It would fit the scenario--though not as the story is told, right?  Don't try to explain it away.  Accept that a loving God gave a logical story, based on His having all ability.

  • GodlessLiberal

    @SlackerSociety - [You go and post this, then mock creationism at the end.]
    Yes, I mock creationism. Those who don't want their beliefs mocked shouldn't have such mockable beliefs.

    [You have no respect for even Christians who accept evolution.]
    I have respect for a whole helluva lot of people I disagree with. I am able to lack respect for a certain belief someone may hold and still very much respect them as a person. I have plenty of Christian friends, just like I have Republican friends and friends that listen to country-western music.

    @wizexel22 - [I don't believe in a young earth ...but its silly to think 6 billion people is an argument against it.]
    Where was it stated that this is an argument of any kind?

    [In fact, the greater burden is to explain why in the 200,000 years of modern humans, why the population is only 6-7 billion.]
    No, it isn't. Plague, famine, predation, starvation, wars, etc etc etc.

    [I'm not sure what % of Christians in America do believe in a young earth]
    49% according to a Gallup poll in 2006. That's of ALL Americans, not just American Christians.

    [why you always attack the weakest fringe parts of Christianity?]
    Even though 2011 is only half over, we still have more pro-creationism laws being put forward than in any other year ever. You call it the "weakest fringe," but this "fringe" makes up nearly half the USA, and has incredible funds and powerful lawyers on retainer.

    @AmeliaHart - [It's time you attacked the Hare Krishna followers and the Buddhists... this is old hat! ;) ]

    I need to learn more about Buddhism first. Not much Buddhism here in Minnesota.

    @godfatherofgreenbay - That "missing day" thing has been disproved so hard that even Answers In Genesis says it's an argument that shouldn't be used.

  • jmallory

    @GodlessLiberal - You can be friends with someone that listens to country? ugh!

    @SlackerSociety - I'm with @SirNickDon on this one.

  • sleekpeek

    @The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter - I suppose this is the answer. God is a nano-hybrid supercomputer who exists for the sole purpose of using humans to reinvent himself. He gets p.o.'d when humans f. up again. "At the rate you creatures are going, I'll never be reinvented!" So, he throws mayhem and destruction our way (i.e. a temper tantrum) to get us to "think" (coercion). Anyway, this explains the paradox of which came first, God or the God egg. (or should that be sperm?) Plasma soup? *shrug* It really is circular. Ohm, oh Holy Ouroborusical Spaghetti Super Monster. In the sky.

  • The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter

    @sleekpeek - Even though you used a playful spin in your answer..I read somewhere that theory. That we are mere tools of a collectiveness of thought to help it evolve. So we can then say.."We are one of the many and many of the one"

  • The_Aftershock_3650

    Haha! One of your more clever entries :)

  • Garistotle

    Seriously though.. if you want to mock 7-days creationism, do it by pointing out that the bible itself has 2 different creation stories that are completely unrelated to one another. That usually does the trick. 

  • Maverick83

    lol this reminded me of Holy Crap!, a parody of the Bible I started writing awhile ago.

  • UTRow1

    @GodlessLiberal - not to mention extremely high infertility rates without modern science, the incredibly small life spans (less time to mate), religious suppression of sex out of wed lock, infanticide, the high rate of children dying shortly after birth without modern medicine, cultural differences (having more than one child was frowned upon in many ancient cultures), the significant number of women who died during child birth (women reproductive tracts are not "designed" well at all), poor nutrition of available food (different problem from famine), etc.

    Modern reproductive rates and population curves are pretty much entirely the result of modern science. People forget that even a few centuries ago, having a child that lived for more than a few years was a pretty significant deal. Many empires fell or were extremely tested through the inability of people to have progeny. 

  • Vintage70s
    100 eProps!
    Funny
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